David Aggleton

CPP, CSC

David G. Aggleton, CPP, CSC, is president and principal consultant of Aggleton & Associates, Inc., located on New York. He has been practicing in the security system consulting and design field for over 30 years and has completed more than 500 design and implementation projects over the last 15 years. He can be reached at dave.aggleton@aggleton.com.

Lighting design is usually best left to a qualified lighting engineer; but, there are times that the security practitioner needs to understand lighting requirements as they relate to security, and where those needs may be at odds with the more generic...

When you consider all of the hardware and software elements that constitute an access control system, perhaps the least technical is the door hardware. Yet the application of that hardware is the least understood and subject to more headaches than any...